“If their fantastic new EP We Are Sonic Art is any indication, expect a fine squall of garage-noise-pop somewhere between the pre-punk isolation of Mid-west 70s isolates like Half Japanese [...]
“The Klaxon kicks off with a spindly, spry, though still downbeat tight groove for a jazzy, late-evening number, “Sickness Divine,” with Simon Jones singing the line [...]
“Earth Covers Earth was the first Current 93 album I obsessed over. I acquired it not long after I found a copy of Emblems for $2.89 in a bargain bin […]
Recorded between Halloween, October 2002 and Mid-Winter’s Night, December 2003 Label: New European Recordings – BAD VCCD48 Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 2004 VG+/VG+ *Image in [...]
Ksiezyc was a project from Poland, active in the 1990s.Members included Agata Harz (vocals), Katarzyna Smoluk (vocals, piano), Robert Nizi ski (wind instruments, keyboards), Lechos aw Polak [...]
Evelyne/Masao bring Testpattern to Dark Entries for the label’s first foray into vintage Japanese electronics. Masao Hiruma and Fumio Ichimura’s project Testpattern is known for their release [...]
Diastereomer was a new wave two-piece formed in Tokyo by high school friends Katsuya Shoman and Yoshio Tanaka in 1986. After releasing a private press 7″ single in 1989 in […]
“A CERTAIN RATIO – who celebrate their 40th anniversary this year – release a new box set, acr:box, out on Mute. acr:box launches with a brand new acoustic version of […]
BG 001, the first release from Blushing Grinning, is the newest album from Harry Sings! titled Christies Toybox – a long play aural odyssey into the depths of an acidotic […]
“Bruit Direct Disques continues down the path of no-fucks-given w/yet another ace from a deck already heaped with bewildering maa. In much the same way as Pasolini’s Theoreme (the film) [...]
Fluoreszent is the new solo album by Cologne based artist Hans Nieswandt and his third for Hamburg’s Bureau B label. Hans Nieswandt is a long standing and highly respected key […]
Hazy dream chronicles. “A Martin Rev album is always liable to spring a surprise. Think of the rough guitars which unexpectedly appeared on his 2003 release To Live (BB 417CD/LP) […]
“[Martin] Rev initially explored free jazz and similarly free forms of musical expression before discovering the magnetic attraction of electronic production and instrumentation, enabling [...]
“Like a blizzard in a snow globe American indie label File 13 Records released what was already Martin Rev’s sixth solo album in the autumn of 2003. The previous year, […]
What our staff has to say: “Absolute classic of New York’s No Wave scene. Dissonant James Brown funk punk. Reissued by Superior Viaduct” – Jon Soon after their 1978 debut [...]
Limited 180gm audiophile vinyl LP repressing of this album by the Manchester post-punk icons featuring the original Peter Saville designed packaging. Closer, the band’s 1980 sophomore album [...]
The quartet of Sonam Parikh, Pier Harrison Juliette Rando & Kat Bean are the glorious blood & guts behind Eraser. Much can be said of their paths to this apex, […]
The debut album of one of Britain’s most acclaimed and influential bands, Songs to Remember takes us back to the beginnings of Scritti Politti. Having emerged out of the DIY […]
In early 2025, a visit to Gary’s personal archive allowed for a deep dig, and amongst all the treasures, unreleased Telekon material was found. We are thrilled to include four […]
Formed in 1984, Fields of the Nephilim is the creation of vocalist and front man Carl McCoy. Highly influential, especially in the world of goth, but also within the metal […]
Formed in 1984, Fields of the Nephilim is the creation of vocalist and front man Carl McCoy. Highly influential, especially in the world of goth, but also within the metal […]
Beggars Arkive is happy to announce our reissue of The Fall’s 1989 half-studio/half-live album, Seminal Live. Available on yellow vinyl and digitally, the album has been newly remastered by Kevin [...]
Available for the first time on vinyl, this collection compiles the singles released around This Nation’s Saving Grace and includes 5 tracks from the bands’ 1985 BBC Peel sessions. Also […]
“One reason the Fields of the Nephilim were so successful at what they did was their live performance sense. If McCoy especially wasn’t really believing he was carrying out religious [...]
“Mountain Of One’s Leo Zero is invited to select and blend a diverse and pop-friendly mix set by Strut Records. expect choice cuts from Chris & Cosey ‘Exotica’, Can [...]
Peter Jefferies, a living legend of New Zealand underground music, from his seminal bands Nocturnal Projections and This Kind of Punishment, to his collaborative efforts in bands such as Plagal [...]
“A somnambulant journey through psychedelic bedroom fantasy-scapes, Glare is Roe Enney’s first proper LP after only a few under-the-radar cassette releases on Phaserprone, Discriminate and [...]
“Hilary Woods’ Birthmarks has been a labor of intensity and intuition, written over the course of two years. Recorded whilst heavily pregnant between Galway and Oslo in the winter of […]
THE FINAL RELEASE ON TORN LIGHT RECORDS Null Mutants is the Chicago-based duo of Todd Irwin and Nick Butcher. Accomplished graphic artists, the project finds the pair mixing deep reverence […]
“In the smoggy orange light of a new millennium, the young Deb Demure would take the bus, once a week, from his home in crumbling Hollywood to his grandmother’s apartment, […]
“Originally released in 1981 as a limited vinyl pressing of 300 copies on Agi Yuzuru’s fabled experimental label Vanity Records (R.N.A. Organism, Dada, Sympathy Nervous, Tolerance…), Lady [...]
“The final Eyeless in Gaza release before the duo’s temporary split, Back From the Rains builds on the pop sense of Rust Red September excellently. Beginning with the brief a […]
While working in Berlin Wedding at andereBaustelle studio on their upcoming album – scheduled for release in May 2026 on Bureau B – Kreidler found also time to dig deep […]
“It is more than a little disingenuous to refer to this as a Keith LeBlanc album. While his considerable drumming skills and compositional abilities are major parts of why this […]
Perhaps in the contemporary simulacra wherein copies are all copies of other copies, the sense of the fraught sophomore effort is accentuated even more so. In a world of endless […]
Building on 2024’s Hopscotch Fever, Cincinnati’s Artificial Go return with ten more tracks of existential post-punk chamber pop. Recorded at Lambda Research and the haunted attic of the band’s [...]
“The Features, perhaps more than anybody, were the band that provided the stylistic delineation between punk and post-punk in the Auckland, New Zealand scene. The band formed in late 1979, [...]
Oamaru, located about 80 miles north of Dunedin on New Zealand’s south island, might seem like the last place you expect to find a prodigious racket like Cuticles, but ain’t […]
Debut solo-album by JJULIUS. Recorded and mixed by JJULIUS in Gothenburg from autumn 2020 to winter 2021 Label: Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox – MMJ004 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Sweden [...]
Literally taking off where the acclaimed Precious Waste in our Wake LP finished off, London based outfit Triple Negative return with another exemplary amplified jigsaw puzzle. The playback of [...]
Sole single from these avant-pop weirdos. Sounds like the catchier bits from Ralph Records, fed through a uranium tube. Label: Cheap Records – 110032X Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single […]
Whirlywirld was an Australian Post-Punk band led by Ollie Olsen (Reals, Young Charlatans), and the first of his musical collaborations with drummer John Murphy (News). The band formed Whirlwirld [...]
“ESG’s fusion of sweet soul and punk attitude with an intuitive understanding of dance music remains.” The Guardian “This is still funk with an alien otherworldliness the likes of which [...]